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Senate advances bill to restore DUI enforcement funding; sponsor recounts personal crash
Summary
Senate Bill 30, proposing increased allocations from beer‑tax revenue to fund local DUI enforcement and education, advanced from second to third reading after proponents cited declining disbursements and a sponsor’s personal account of injury from a drunk‑driver crash. Vote was 26–0.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 4 advanced Senate Bill 30, a measure to increase funding sent to local governments for alcohol‑related enforcement and prevention programs, moving it from the second to the third reading calendar on a 26–0 roll‑call vote.
Senator Wadipes, the bill’s sponsor, described the legislation as a response to a steady decline in disbursements from a beer‑tax fund created to support DUI enforcement. He said the fund once had an annual cap near $4.3 million but recent years’ budget cuts left about $1.5 million appropriated for…
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